Category: Chickity check it!

Chickity Check It! GoodMorningGloucester In The Media

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Here’s coverage of our coverage-

Who else wants to see a bunch of broads rolling around on skates at high speed trying to take each other’s heads off?

Besides me that is, lol.

Dames interviewed on GoodMorningGloucester

Sure there was other press there. Sure they had fancier cameras with big huge ginormous lenses and fancy flash set ups. Ya think they got the in depth personal interviews that we did?

Hell no. These shmoes are content taking pictures from 50 feet while we get up close and personal for the personal side of things.

Maybe they take nicer pictures from a thousand feet away but I’ll tell you what. I’ll take my video and interviewing skills and put them up against anyone. So go ahead all you photographers out there, stay back at a safe distance while we here at GMG get you inside the action down on the floor and in the subjects grill.

That’s what I’m talkin ’bout sucka!

Ask Fevah, she’ll tell ya who got the scoop!

GMG Q&A – John Hintlian

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John Hintlian a Gloucester Guerilla who presented at GGAP II shares his Gloucester Questionnaire answers.

photo by John Hintlian
photo by John Hintlian

Local Website everyone should know about (excluding GMG)

http://johnhintlian.blogspot.com/

How long have you lived in Gloucester?

Well, I’ve lived in Rockport on and off all my life – since 1965

What is your favorite season In Gloucester?

Summer – hands down.

Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?

The quarries, Flat Point

What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?

Sebastian’s/Maria’s tie

What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?

Destino’s

What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?

The Cupboard for sunset

What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?

Rhumb Line

What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?

Sugar Magnolia’s

What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?

Fiesta, of course! Block Parties a close second

In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?

On a surfboard

Who is your favorite local artist?

Andy Cunningham

Which is your favorite local beach?

Pebble or Long

Who makes the best burger in town?

The Franklin

Who has the best chowder in town?

Charlie’s

Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?

WickedLocal.com

Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?

Haddock

What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?

I had a blast – we need more.

What is your favorite local band?

Dutch Oven

John Ronan- Gloucester’s Poet Laureate

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John Ronan, Gloucester’s Poet Laureate is looking for some good poetry from local commercial fishermen. If you are a commercial fisherman and do write poetry John would love to feature your work on his site-
gloucesterpoetlaureate.org

Here is John at the Gloucester Guerilla Art Project II/Russo Family Fundraiser-

DSC_5248, originally uploaded by sharon_lowe88.

Check out John rockin’ the Nikes!^

Thanks To Sharon Lowe for the picture
John also has a website http://www.theronan.org/

Local Colors Debara Hafemann Video Interview

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Debara Hafemann from Loal Colors Talks About A Deep Love For The City She Now Calls Home

You Can Check Out Debara’s Website by Clicking This Text

GLoucester Gas Prices Feature Video

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For those of you that don’t already know, I added a widget in the bottom right section of the page in which you can check out local gas prices.  If you scroll down the right hand column of the blog you can see it.

For a video demonstration of how this widget works click this text

GMG Q&A – Jay Albert From Cape Ann Images

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Jay Albert runs the fantastic Cape Ann Photography Blog Cape Ann Images.  He’s also a Gloucester Guerilla having presented at the second Downtown Block Party and the first Gloucester Guerilla Art Project at Cape Ann Community Cinema.

How long have you lived in Gloucester?

my whole life…excluding 2 years I was exiled to Rockport!

What is your favorite season In Gloucester?

Summer

Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?

10 miles offshore!

What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?

Maria’s

What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?

Mike’s place

What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?

Home

What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?

I haven’t done bars in years! Remember Lil Earls?

What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?

George”s

What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?

Toss-up between the Fiesta & Schooner festival.

In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?

Boat

Who is your favorite local artist?

Armond Sindoni ,favorite dead artist Fitz Henry Lane

Which is your favorite local beach?

Good Harbor…for the great photo ops!

Who makes the best burger in town?

Halibut Point

Who has the best chowder in town?

Freddy’s Lobsta Land

Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?

Cape Ann Images!

Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?

Clam

What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?

It brought downtown alive! It showcases the downtown buisnesses unlike the Sidewalk Bazzar that fills the sidewalks with “pop-up vendors”.

What is your favorite local band?

If Ipswich was local it would be “The Fools”!

Thanks, Joey

GMG Q&A With Kat Valentine

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Parlez Moi Press
Parlez Moi Press

Kat Valentines runs a virtual local media conglomerate including publishing through her parlez-moi press, her web design and marketing company, her blog, her knitting book, and her many local community projects one of which she recently received an unsung hero award for seARTS.

Local Website everyone should know about (excluding GMG) www.valentine-design.com

How long have you lived in Gloucester?

14 years

What is your favorite season In Gloucester?

All of them but especially autumn

Do you have any secret outdoor spots in Gloucester where you go to “get away”?

Yes. ;o)

What is your favorite pizza joint in Gloucester?

Sebastians

What is your favorite sub shop in Gloucester?

Leonardos

What place would you go for a romantic dinner in Gloucester?

La Trattoria

What is your favorite bar in Gloucester?

Halibut Point

What is your favorite breakfast joint in Gloucester?

Cape Ann Coffee

What is your favorite local event in Gloucester?

Fiesta

In the summer do you prefer the beach or to be on a boat?

Beach

Who is your favorite local artist?

Robert Gruppe, Jeff Weaver, Tom Nicholas…. the list is endless

Which is your favorite local beach?

GHB

Who makes the best burger in town?

Me

Who has the best chowder in town?

Causeway

Excluding GMG what is your second favorite local blog?

Cape Ann Images

Do you prefer haddock chowder or clam chowder?

Haddock

What were your thoughts on The Downtown Block Parties last year?

Keep em coming

What is your favorite local band?

Karen Ristuben

Thanks, Joey

I’m thinking today is going to be the day!

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I’m thinking today is going to be the day we bust through 300,000 hits.  I wonder who it is going to be to click through and be the 300,000th.

I’m thinking today is going to be the day!, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Would You Look At That!

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I just noticed that with  just under 2300 hits from now GoodMorningGloucester will have reached 300,000 hits.  That’s not to shabby for a little blog that was started right around New Years Day last year.

Considering the first couple months it only generated about 20-50 hits a day, GMG has grown steadily and we haven’t looked back since.

Thanks to everyone who has subscribed, bookmarked, made this community a more positive place to be and laughed with us along the way.

Without your comments and support the energy to continue would surely have waned.   Thank you, thank you thank you, for sharing your mornings, days and evenings with me.

“City’s Spirit Shines At Benefit”- Editorial From The GDT

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GGAP II Audience
GGAP II Audience

We did good!

From the Gloucester Daily Times-

In a program ripe with artists capturing Gloucester’s character, the city’s spirit shone as bright as ever.

Snowed out two weeks earlier, the fund-raiser to aid the children of Patriot fishing boat Captain Matteo Russo drew a near full house Sunday afternoon to the Gloucester Stage Co, theater, where lobster broker and “Good Morning Gloucester” blogger Joe Ciaramitaro teamed up with Cape Ann Cinema coordinator Rob Newton to raise more than $2,200 for the cause.

But the success of the event extended beyond the numbers, and even beyond the fact that it was for a good cause.

For the rest of the story click the link below-

Gloucester Daily Times Editorial

Chickity Check It!- Letters From The Maritime

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Carol McMahon submitted this website for us to all check out-

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There are Google Maps of the earths ocean, maritime news, fishing industry news and more!

Chickity Check It!- Letters From the Maritime

Chickity Check It!- Essex Shipbuilding Museum Newsletter

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Thanks To Linn Parisi for forwarding this to me-

Essex Shipbuilding Museum
Essex Shipbuilding Museum

Click This Text For The Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s Newsletter

Chickity Check It!- Sharon Lowe’s New Family Activity Blog

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“Flapping like a Haddock is a new blog for Cape Ann families. If you’re looking for activities and ideas to keep your child from “flapping like a haddock” this winter (and beyond), you’ll probably find it here. As a preschool teacher/director/parent/grandparent, I know how hard it can be staying sane when the colder weather hits. We can share our experiences, vent, and brainstorm. We also can keep up to date on the happenings on the Cape . Share this blog with other parents and caregivers, and we’ll have some fun!”

– Sharon

Chickity Check It!- Costello Countdown

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The Outstanding Staff At The Chamber have put together a blog in honor of Mike Costello’s final days at the Chamber. Click this text to check out CostelloCountdown

Monthly Subscriber Drive- Spread The Love

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Do you enjoy this blog?

Are you one of the people that say they make it part of their routine to check it throughout the day?

Do you have family across the country or world that might enjoy seeing what is happening in Gloucester?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions then I ask you to spread the news about the blog. The response and average daily hits have been climbing exponentially thanks to people spreading the word about it.

I ask if you dig what we’re doing here then to copy this url-

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/

Copy (right click and select copy), then paste it in an email (right click and select paste in an email message box) and share it with friends or family that may not know about it.

If you haven’t already, then bookmark the blog so you can easily access it or better yet subscribe (it’s free).

Click here to subscribe by email

It’s been a labor of love and real fun to meet some of the folks on the street that say how much they look forward to the regular updates.

If you think it’s worthy of sharing with others, please do so.

Thanks, Joey

Sharon Lowe Offers Up Prize For Winner Of What Zat Slideshow Game

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From Sharon-

“Because it wasn’t clear that the What Zat? game was a slide show, I’m going to give the t-shirt to the first person who identified the Annisquam Lighthouse. It was Paula Ryan O’Brien. If Paula sees this, please contact me at sharone.lowe@verizon.net. Congratulations!

A new contest with one photo will begin on Monday, December 1.”

Sharon also will be exhibiting 6 framed prints (suitable for holiday giving!) at the First National Bank of Ipswich in the Walgreen’s plaza.  If you are in the area, check out some of Sharon’s incredible work.


Chickity Check It- Fishing With Susie Blog

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Well she’s gone and done it.  I’ve been telling Susie to start her own blog because of all the people I know, Susie has a story to tell, and drama follows her around like baby duckings to their mother.  Check it out, she promises to update it regualrly- FishingWithSusie

The Fashion Spot

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On a message board called The Fashion Spot one of the members found the pictures of Cintia Dicker and the boys down here at the dock from our Summer Photo shoot with the Victoria’s Secret model.  You can check out what they had to say by clicking the highlighted text above. 

It would have been nice if the original poster hyperlinked back to GMG but at least they referenced us and didn’t crop out my watermark like some others do.

For anyone that is interested in more from the Cintia Dicker Shoot you can clcik this text to see alll the related posts we did from it.

Chickity Check It! Miz Lia’s Blog & Flickr Page

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Miz Lia has her own blog with photos taken always from a fresh funky perspective.  She proves the theory that you don’t necessarily need a $1000 camera to put together some interesting visually stunning photography.    Watch out world because once she does get herself a big girl camera she’s gonna be even more dangerous.

Last night she posted some pics from the First Ever Gloucester-Guerilla Art Project (G-GAP) on her site MizLia.  You can also check out her Flickr Site here-MizLia’s Flickr

Great Time and Thank Yous

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Last Night’s First Ever Gloucester Guerilla Art Project was a fantastic event.  There were many faces of the Gloucester Blogging community represented along with friends of GMG and other nortable folks.

I’d like to thank Robert Newton who provided the venue Cape Ann Community Cinema (and I think I forgot to thank publicly last night).  I’d also like to thank all the presenters- Jay Albert from Cape Ann Images, Mark Teiwes who shoots for the Beacon and hosts some of his work at www.MarkTeiwes.com, Chad Carlberg and Emile Doucette along with the rest of the team from www.baitandtackle.biz . Also thanks go out to Kat Valentine from Valentine Design who put Jay Albert’s slide show together and also was of great technical assistance.  If you haven’t already checked out their sites I highly suggest you do.

I’m looking forward to collaborating with these guys in the future to bring even more fun community media presentations to you fine folks.

It was nice to see fellow bloggers Jon Conant, John Hintlian, Miz Lia and Steve B.  Thanks for the support guys.  Also thanks go out to one of my best buddies “The Rabbit”  who took over GMG photo duties so I could meet folks without the encumbrances of the camera(pics coming later) or you could check out Miz Lia’s Blog for a few to hold you over til the Rabbit gets his ass out of bed today.

Thanks also go to Enrico Pallazzo and his lovely wife Kim for showing the love last night along with Damon and Ann Malloy of Neptune’s Harvest Fame (who I got to meet officially last night), Big Daddy Phil Doucette, Kenny and Paula Ryan, Dad’s cousin Gail Guittar, Jay’s family, Sharon Lowe, the fans of GMG, and the other people that I’m suddenly forgetting but showed up including the lovely lady that told me earlier in the week down the dock that she was going to show up and she did with her friend but her name escapes me.

Thanks to anyone else that came but I’m forgetting or didn’t get to meet.

Thanks, Thanks, Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I promise we will continue to do these and add more contibutors in the future.  I’d like to have John Hintlian, Sharon Lowe and Steve B participate in the next one (start putting your stuff together).

Ahhhhhhhh, feels good!